You know what carts they are. Those motorized shopping carts for disabled people. The other day at work, three times I chased about 4 teens away from the motorized cart because they were playing on it. One was driving, one was sitting in the basket, and they were chasing the other two around the store. Are kids that bored that they need to deny a motorized cart for somebody who really needs it? Please, be considerate and if you don't need it, don't use it.
On the subject of kids, parents, please keep an eye on your kids when you're in the store! Today a child got stuck UNDER the shelving unit. Yes, the kid got wedged underneath our shelves. How did the kid get there? He was playing with a ball and the ball rolled under the shelves. He decided to crawl under there and get it. Where was Mom? about 2 aisles over looking at makeup. We were able to get the kid unstuck by removing the lowest shelf. Of course who did Mom blame? Us. Because we have toys at a level that a child can get them. Not Mom's fault for not watching the kid, our fault for selling bouncy balls. Go figure.
Thursday, June 11, 2009
Thursday, June 4, 2009
Finish your shopping BEFORE you get to the checkout!
I don't know if it's just me or if I'm just expecting too much...but isn't it common sense to finish shopping BEFORE going into the checkout? Maybe I've been doing it wrong all this time.
Today at work I get a page from the camera counter clerk. She wanted to know what to do because two guys put their beer on the counter and left to finish shopping. The clerk had another customer, but the counter was blocked with the beer. Gee....I don't know....maybe MOVE THE BEER! I told her to get a shopping cart, put the beer in it, and move it out of the way.
Meanwhile she's ringing up the other customer, the two guys return with the rest of their shopping, and start arguing because we moved the beer. I explained that we have to keep the counter open for other customers and that they should use a shopping cart and complete their shopping before going to the checkout. They argued with me for at least 10 minutes!.....Sheesh...sorry but you aren't the one and only customer we have, have a little consideration for somebody else.
Today at work I get a page from the camera counter clerk. She wanted to know what to do because two guys put their beer on the counter and left to finish shopping. The clerk had another customer, but the counter was blocked with the beer. Gee....I don't know....maybe MOVE THE BEER! I told her to get a shopping cart, put the beer in it, and move it out of the way.
Meanwhile she's ringing up the other customer, the two guys return with the rest of their shopping, and start arguing because we moved the beer. I explained that we have to keep the counter open for other customers and that they should use a shopping cart and complete their shopping before going to the checkout. They argued with me for at least 10 minutes!.....Sheesh...sorry but you aren't the one and only customer we have, have a little consideration for somebody else.
Monday, June 1, 2009
Bored really
Well, nothing's really pissed me off lately that's blog worthy. Of course work is always a good pisser offer lol But that's nothing new and would be too monotonous to blog work all the time *g*
I could go on a mini rant about trying to lose weight. Why is it so easy to turn into a fat cow, but so hard to get thin? LOL
I started first by cutting waaay down on junk food for a month, lost 5 pounds (yay!), then I cut waaaaay down on drinking pop, switched to iced tea, lost another 5 pounds (yay!). SO...after about 3 months of limiting junk (I still eat some on occasion, but not three meals a day like I used to...I swear if I get cut, I'd bleed chocolate sauce) I decided to start exercising. Now, I find regular exercise to be very boring so when somebody suggested playing DDR (Dance Dance Revolution) would be an excellent workout, I decided that that could be fun exercise. I bought Dance Praise which is just like DDR but with Christian music. I like it. There's a mode where you can start out slow and easy, but each song gets just a weeee bit more difficult. I can usually go 30 minutes on this mode before getting worn out. There's also an arcade mode where if you hit the steps correctly, you get power ups, some good and some bad. I like the confetti one, covers the screen in confetti *g* This game also comes with a calorie counter. It counts how many calories you've burned by doing the dances. I went through 5 songs...and burned 38 calories...that's the yogurt I had for breakfast LOL
Just thought of something else to rant about....last minute notices. My pastor wants to start a puppet ministry, but we have no puppets. He also sprung it on me last Sunday that he wants me to write the puppet skits for VBS, but could I have them done in a week or two so we can practice acting them out and get them pre-recorded before VBS week (June 22-25). Uh yeah sure...I'll just call in sick for an entire week so I have the time. And as for doing these with no puppets....that'll be fun LOL
Something good that happened at work Saturday night....I stopped a $1500 liquor theft. Of course one of the clerks on Sunday told me I was racial profiling for watching these guys in the first place...but if I wasn't watching, they'd have gone out the door with $1500 in liquor. I was covering the camera counter for a break. I stepped into the little back room for a couple minutes and kept hearing bottles clanking together. I peeked out the door and saw 3 black men loading up a shopping cart. I stood back where I could see them but they couldn't see me and watched for a bit. I saw one of them pushing the cart down the aisle, so I stepped out of the back room where I could be seen and just stared at them. The one pushed the cart back into the aisle and they spent about another 5 minutes looking to see what I was doing (staring at them lol). He signaled to his buddies to drop what they had, then they started to wander and hang out in front of the camera counter. I kept staring *g*. The 'leader' asked if we carried Rose...I knew they knew we had Rose, they were just over in that aisle loading up so I told him I didn't know liquor, if we had it it would be on the wine wall. He said he couldn't find any, didn't want me going to help look, and the three left empty handed. After the clerk came back from break, I went down the aisle and found the shopping cart filled with $500 of liquor. Just before we were leaving, the clerk found a hand basket with more liquor...and it was filled, it took both of us to lift it into a cart. I put everything in the back room for the manager to see the next morning. The liquor manager was ordering, and found another hand basket with even more liquor. The 2 managers watched the security tape from the previous night, and saw that one of the guys actually went into the liquor back room and took 3 bottles of $45 tequila. Once everything was totalled up, it was almost $1500. What did I get from the company for stopping $1500 from walking out the door...."good job". That's it..."Good job" When the store manager gets back from vacation, I MIGHT get a $5 customer service award coupon...wow.
I could go on a mini rant about trying to lose weight. Why is it so easy to turn into a fat cow, but so hard to get thin? LOL
I started first by cutting waaay down on junk food for a month, lost 5 pounds (yay!), then I cut waaaaay down on drinking pop, switched to iced tea, lost another 5 pounds (yay!). SO...after about 3 months of limiting junk (I still eat some on occasion, but not three meals a day like I used to...I swear if I get cut, I'd bleed chocolate sauce) I decided to start exercising. Now, I find regular exercise to be very boring so when somebody suggested playing DDR (Dance Dance Revolution) would be an excellent workout, I decided that that could be fun exercise. I bought Dance Praise which is just like DDR but with Christian music. I like it. There's a mode where you can start out slow and easy, but each song gets just a weeee bit more difficult. I can usually go 30 minutes on this mode before getting worn out. There's also an arcade mode where if you hit the steps correctly, you get power ups, some good and some bad. I like the confetti one, covers the screen in confetti *g* This game also comes with a calorie counter. It counts how many calories you've burned by doing the dances. I went through 5 songs...and burned 38 calories...that's the yogurt I had for breakfast LOL
Just thought of something else to rant about....last minute notices. My pastor wants to start a puppet ministry, but we have no puppets. He also sprung it on me last Sunday that he wants me to write the puppet skits for VBS, but could I have them done in a week or two so we can practice acting them out and get them pre-recorded before VBS week (June 22-25). Uh yeah sure...I'll just call in sick for an entire week so I have the time. And as for doing these with no puppets....that'll be fun LOL
Something good that happened at work Saturday night....I stopped a $1500 liquor theft. Of course one of the clerks on Sunday told me I was racial profiling for watching these guys in the first place...but if I wasn't watching, they'd have gone out the door with $1500 in liquor. I was covering the camera counter for a break. I stepped into the little back room for a couple minutes and kept hearing bottles clanking together. I peeked out the door and saw 3 black men loading up a shopping cart. I stood back where I could see them but they couldn't see me and watched for a bit. I saw one of them pushing the cart down the aisle, so I stepped out of the back room where I could be seen and just stared at them. The one pushed the cart back into the aisle and they spent about another 5 minutes looking to see what I was doing (staring at them lol). He signaled to his buddies to drop what they had, then they started to wander and hang out in front of the camera counter. I kept staring *g*. The 'leader' asked if we carried Rose...I knew they knew we had Rose, they were just over in that aisle loading up so I told him I didn't know liquor, if we had it it would be on the wine wall. He said he couldn't find any, didn't want me going to help look, and the three left empty handed. After the clerk came back from break, I went down the aisle and found the shopping cart filled with $500 of liquor. Just before we were leaving, the clerk found a hand basket with more liquor...and it was filled, it took both of us to lift it into a cart. I put everything in the back room for the manager to see the next morning. The liquor manager was ordering, and found another hand basket with even more liquor. The 2 managers watched the security tape from the previous night, and saw that one of the guys actually went into the liquor back room and took 3 bottles of $45 tequila. Once everything was totalled up, it was almost $1500. What did I get from the company for stopping $1500 from walking out the door...."good job". That's it..."Good job" When the store manager gets back from vacation, I MIGHT get a $5 customer service award coupon...wow.
Friday, May 15, 2009
More stupidity...
Wow...2 days in a row posting!!! It's a miracle! (Now if I could just get readers ROFL)
More stupidity in the news today.
A Florida mother is demanding her daughter's school destroy and reprint their yearbooks. The reason? Her daughter wore a short skirt with no panties on the day the club pictures were taken, sat in the front row, and may have exposed herself in the picture. Story Here
The daughter's reasoning? She didn't want panty lines. Huh? Who sees panty lines when you're sitting on your tush? Anybody looking that closely to pictures shouldn't be in posession of a school yearbook!
Moral to this story: If you're going to go without underpants, wear a longer skirt.
More stupidity in the news today.
A Florida mother is demanding her daughter's school destroy and reprint their yearbooks. The reason? Her daughter wore a short skirt with no panties on the day the club pictures were taken, sat in the front row, and may have exposed herself in the picture. Story Here
The daughter's reasoning? She didn't want panty lines. Huh? Who sees panty lines when you're sitting on your tush? Anybody looking that closely to pictures shouldn't be in posession of a school yearbook!
Moral to this story: If you're going to go without underpants, wear a longer skirt.
Thursday, May 14, 2009
Great message!
While driving home from work I was following this guy: 
Normally following somebody in a motorcycle isn't a big deal, but this is what the back of his t-shirt said:
So, we see he's advertising safety, and has a cute picture of a sad face with a head booboo...so..
WHY WASN'T HE WEARING A HELMET?
Monday, April 13, 2009
Horrendous "customer service"
This is actually my sister's issue.
Some back story first:
My sister and brother in law homeschool my 2 nieces. He's on disability so they order the girls curriculum one month at a time, when his disability check comes in. Every time, they have delivery issues.
The packages come via UPS. The last 3 shipments were never delivered. They call UPS, UPS says the driver attempted a delivery but was unable. They once were told they were in too dangerous a neighborhood...but they live across the street from the police station! They've also been told that they would need to go to UPS to pick up their package...50 miles away! They've been told that the driver attempted delivery but nobody was home. OK....on disability, neither one works so somebody is home all day. No trucks even drove past the house.
There was supposed to be some curriculum for the youngest one delivered today. I even spent a few hours over there and never saw a truck...but the tracking said "attempted delivery, signature not available". Huh? Where did they attempt to deliver? Were they trying the wrong building? If so, don't they double check addresses first? They're supposed to try again tomorrow, and my sister is going to call once an hour to make sure they deliver. My brother in law is going to contact the BBB (since this has happened three times), and they're going to see if their supplier can ship via Fed Ex from now on.
Anybody else have trouble getting UPS to deliver packages?
Some back story first:
My sister and brother in law homeschool my 2 nieces. He's on disability so they order the girls curriculum one month at a time, when his disability check comes in. Every time, they have delivery issues.
The packages come via UPS. The last 3 shipments were never delivered. They call UPS, UPS says the driver attempted a delivery but was unable. They once were told they were in too dangerous a neighborhood...but they live across the street from the police station! They've also been told that they would need to go to UPS to pick up their package...50 miles away! They've been told that the driver attempted delivery but nobody was home. OK....on disability, neither one works so somebody is home all day. No trucks even drove past the house.
There was supposed to be some curriculum for the youngest one delivered today. I even spent a few hours over there and never saw a truck...but the tracking said "attempted delivery, signature not available". Huh? Where did they attempt to deliver? Were they trying the wrong building? If so, don't they double check addresses first? They're supposed to try again tomorrow, and my sister is going to call once an hour to make sure they deliver. My brother in law is going to contact the BBB (since this has happened three times), and they're going to see if their supplier can ship via Fed Ex from now on.
Anybody else have trouble getting UPS to deliver packages?
Monday, April 6, 2009
Hang up and Shop!
I know I'm not the only retail worker who is really peeved by people who chatter away on their cell phones while we're trying to wait on them.
I had one today. I was covering a break at the camera counter. I was running a roll of film, and heard the woman talking away on her phone. She was standing at the register, but made no move to end or even pause her conversation. I finished the roll of film I was working on, looked up, said "I'll be right with you"...THEN she decided to put her phone down.
Something else that peeves me is those bluetooth earphones. I see people walking through the store holding conversations...and it looks like they're talking to their cart of groceries. "Hello broccoli, are you having a nice ride in the shopping cart?" I thought one of these people were trying to ask me a question, so I said "Pardon?"...and they snipped I'm on the PHONE!" Like I can tell, you're not holding a phone and I see you talking to yourself.
Have you ever been stuck behind one of these in the checkout line? They feel the need to finish their conversation before even bothering to look for their money, then it's the checker's fault when they can't find enough because they're searching through purses with one hand while the other is holding a phone (actually, some people should try super glue then they'll have a hands free!) and talking so much that they don't even know what they're looking for.
Please...just hang up the phone until you're done shopping!
I had one today. I was covering a break at the camera counter. I was running a roll of film, and heard the woman talking away on her phone. She was standing at the register, but made no move to end or even pause her conversation. I finished the roll of film I was working on, looked up, said "I'll be right with you"...THEN she decided to put her phone down.
Something else that peeves me is those bluetooth earphones. I see people walking through the store holding conversations...and it looks like they're talking to their cart of groceries. "Hello broccoli, are you having a nice ride in the shopping cart?" I thought one of these people were trying to ask me a question, so I said "Pardon?"...and they snipped I'm on the PHONE!" Like I can tell, you're not holding a phone and I see you talking to yourself.
Have you ever been stuck behind one of these in the checkout line? They feel the need to finish their conversation before even bothering to look for their money, then it's the checker's fault when they can't find enough because they're searching through purses with one hand while the other is holding a phone (actually, some people should try super glue then they'll have a hands free!) and talking so much that they don't even know what they're looking for.
Please...just hang up the phone until you're done shopping!
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